Who knew it! I'm actually getting into A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I think the breaker for me was that Dave Eggers actually lived in Berkeley about the same time I was going to college in Hayward. (that armpit of a town... by the way it is the capital of prostitution in California.) He even got the MTV Real World San Francisco application just like I did. I remember agonizing over whether or not to fill that thing out. That was before I left my religeon. Can you imagine if I went through that and losing my virginity on tv? Well, bygones because I didn't have the guts to fill it out anyway.

So I'm really getting into the book now. The various everyday tossles with his little brother Toph, who is nine, are very endearing. Probably really screwed up, but endearing. I'm going to have to look into what Dave Eggers is doing now and if his magazine Might still exists. Email me if you know anything.